The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-03-24
Miscellaneous.

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| Miscellaneous.
THE average number of letters handled
by the Garden City post-office per day dur
ing the past year, were 6, $50.
! BURGLARS have recently been raiding pri-
vate residences in Topeka
THE Jury Commissioner law requires
the Governor to appoint three jury COM
nissioners in counties having thirty thou
sand inhabitants and over, not more than
two of them shall belong to the same politi-
cal party. 1t is made the duty Of these
| commissioners to meet at the county clerk s
Office between the first and fifteenth of
April each year and make list of persons
| to serve as jurors for the ensuing year,
the list to be made up Of qualified electors
| on the assessment rolls Of the cities and
townships of the county the previous year,
and from the whole county without regard
| to city or township limits.
TOPEKA and South Topeka have consol-
idated as one city.
AN officer recently arrived at Topeka with
| Robert J. Harmon, who was lodged in Jail
upon the charge of presenting fraudulent
| pension papers, in which he claimed that he
lost the toes from one OF his feet while he
was in the service of the Government and
in the performance Of his duty, when in
fact he was tramping, got caught in a Dox-
| car in very cold weather and had them fro
zen so badly that they had to be amputated.
UNDER the new law Mrs. T. b. George
has been nominated for the school board
from one OF the wards Of the city of Topeka.
THE President has appointed &. II. ]. Tay-
lor, prominent colored lawyer of Wyan-
f, 1ottc, Minister Resident and Consul Gener
| al of the United States to Liberia.
GENERAL MANAGER SMITH, Of the Atchi-
| son. Topeka q Santa Fe railway, says that
arrangements have been made by which
his road will carry the fast mail. 1t has
been decided to delay the regular mail
! train, which leaves Kansas City at 9:35 a.
m, till the arrival of the fast mail from
New York. This mail train now stops at all
stations, but under the new order of things
it will stop only at Lawrence, Topeka, En-
poria, Florence and other important points.
A local train will be put on when this
change is made, which will leave Kansas
City about nine o'clock in the morning and
run as far west as Nickerson.
ATCHIsON claims nearly five thousand
female voters.
PENSIONS granted to Kansans on the 18th:
Eliza ]. Campbell. OF Newton; Orlando B.
Heath, of Milford; John Ward, of Scandia;
Manuel Denny, of Garnett; Peter Kelly, of
North Topeka; Albert McCauley, of Pen
field; Benjamin Wright, of Turin: Samuel
Decker, of North Cedar; Michael E. Boles,
of Chapman; Benjamin Jordon, OF North
Topeka; Jacob Fatzer, of Dowell; Samuel
Waugh, of Winfield; Leander w. Harris,
of Baxter Springs; John w. Stabler. of
Huron; William a. Markham, of Colby;
John B. Hopkins, of Ashmead; Milton Kirk
patrick. of Salt River; James II. Delhi, of
Belle Plaine, and Andrew n. Campbell, of
Newton.
AS THE Rock Island people recognize the
necessity Of line between Topeka and
Kansas City, they have taken steps to build
one of their own, and with this purpose in
view have filed with the Secretary of State
a charter providing for the Kansas City &
Topeka railroad, with one or more tracks
between the points indicated. The head
quarters are TO be at Topeka. The capital
stock is S2,O00.000.
TIE Santa Fe road is reported to have Sc
cured control of the Manitoba system.
THE law passed ty the Legislature to
encourage silk culture in Kansas appropri-
ates $4,000 for the purpose of establishing
and maintaining stations for silk culture
and provides for three commissioners. one
to be appointed by the Governor, one by
other by the Board of Horticulture The
duty of the commissioners shall be to pro-
vide for carrying into effect the act and
make report of all experiments made and
the expense of the same. The commission
is to cease on May l. 1889. The object of
the law is to fully test the experiment of
profitable silk culture in Kansas.
CLAY CENTER has 1859 school children.
1I-n Rnr hoe nf1,c ca6 bni i'm O,cf,O
asked by C. H. Venner, of Boston, 10 re-
strain the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
road from extending its lines to Chicago
and the Indian Territory. He has also de-
MED the injunction asked by the same
plaintiff to prevent the guaranty by the
Santa Fc Company of the bonds of the At
lantic & Pacific railroad, which, Venner
claimed, the directors of the Santa Fe had
made to their own personal advantage.
These decisions are of vast importance to
the people of Kansas, inasmuch as the OBJ
lect of these Veuner suits has been to tenn
porarily delay the Santa Fe Company in the
construction of important extensions.
THE Santa Fe road has issued circular
calling in all passes issued before the pas
sage Of the Interstate Commerce law.
LATE post-of:ce changes in Kansas: Es-
tablished. Catalpa, Cove County, John F.
Mcdonald. Names changed, Kalamazoo,
Sedgwick County, to Annes, James W.
Brown, postmaster; King City, McPher-
son County. TO Elgria. John H. Craven,
postmaster. Discontinued, Karoma. Hodge |
man County; Grange, Smith County.
PosT-oFFICEs have been established at
Ainsworth. Wichita County, with James II. |
Holland IS postmaster; at Hull, Marshall |
County, with Henry z. Benson as postmas- |
ter, and at Page, St. John (now Logan |
County. with Frederick c. Wegener, as |
postmaster.
MANY Leavenworth German ladies took |
tain about voting.